WRC/FIA Blocking cars?

[hockeytown1926 28]

Heard from a good youtube source the FIA/WRC are blocking the use of current WRC cars from being used.Is this true? Not sure if this is for the last gen cars too.But they've also blocked the use of real stages too.

[Dytut 89]

Officially nothing will be said. But yeah, Codies are avoiding WRC cars and stages just in case there will be legal issues with the license holders.

[SirPhilMcKraken 279]

Paul has basically said similar as well  

[hockeytown1926 28]

I don't mind not having the real stages.But gutted that there's probably zero chance of the last two generations of WRC cars being in the game :(

[SirPhilMcKraken 279]

Its down to the official WRC game I think having the exclusive licence, they know DR and D4 are better games so play hardball to the customer "the only way you'll drive these modern cars is if you buy the official WRC game which we get money from each sale". That kind of thing, licencing definitely seems to have gotten a tonne more ruthless in the last few years.

[SergeyTokarev 7]

SirPhilMcKraken said:

Its down to the official WRC game I think having the exclusive licence, they know DR and D4 are better games so play hardball to the customer "the only way you'll drive these modern cars is if you buy the official WRC game which we get money from each sale". That kind of thing, licencing definitely seems to have gotten a tonne more ruthless in the last few years.

Yeah, I agree. And if you hate it - don't buy these WRC games.

[KevM 44]

Much as i like WRC cars, Id rather do the cars the respect of NOT driving the shoddy representation of them on the 'official' game...

[RodgerDavies 933]

It's a pity, but R5s are the top class in pretty much every other major regional or national championship these days, so if they can secure a good selection of those I'm more than happy enough.

[sqdstr 107]

208 R5 with sounds recorded from the real car, that's all I'll need :)

[BadD0g 0]

I may be in the minority here, but the possibility of having an R2 Fiesta to drive in Dirt 4 is more exciting to me than 2017 WRC cars. :p

Maybe that's personal bias because Fiestas are pretty common here in Rally America, but as others have said, I'm perfectly happy sacrificing the latest and greatest cars if we're going to have a whole roster of cars from almost every other facet of the sport modeled properly to play with.

[BillyDaKid 2]

Blocking the use of the 2017 cars is understandable but if they are blocking older generation WRC cars and stages then that's just pathetic.

[BadD0g 0]

As far as we know they're only blocking cars from around 2010 and up. The way Paul described the stage situation was that they don't *technically* have a license on the stages, but they don't like that other devs are modeling them. The Dirt team already had to adjust Colin's Crest in Sweden to make it slightly different from the real thing, so going after real stages for another game would be risky, and now that they have Your Stage, it's not even worth the trouble.

[enamel 0]

BadD0g said:

I may be in the minority here, but the possibility of having an R2 Fiesta to drive in Dirt 4 is more exciting to me than 2017 WRC cars. :p

Maybe that's personal bias because Fiestas are pretty common here in Rally America, but as others have said, I'm perfectly happy sacrificing the latest and greatest cars if we're going to have a whole roster of cars from almost every other facet of the sport modeled properly to play with.

You are not alone. It is the car I am most excited about, by far. Then again I own a Fiesta ST so I might be biased hah

[gfRally 449]

enamel said:

BadD0g said:

I may be in the minority here, but the possibility of having an R2 Fiesta to drive in Dirt 4 is more exciting to me than 2017 WRC cars. :p

Maybe that's personal bias because Fiestas are pretty common here in Rally America, but as others have said, I'm perfectly happy sacrificing the latest and greatest cars if we're going to have a whole roster of cars from almost every other facet of the sport modeled properly to play with.

You are not alone. It is the car I am most excited about, by far. Then again I own a Fiesta ST so I might be biased hah

Yes, I like this too @BadD0g hope someone will make a Dillon Van Way and Chris Duplisis livery and many more from over here.  I am a little sad that the vt12 Subaru is gone and a N4 2015 models is there (no chance of getting the current vt16 cars, since Horizon has them now).  Oh well... could follow Crazy Leo's career or some other fantasy :)

[BadD0g 0]

gfRally said:

enamel said:

BadD0g said:

I may be in the minority here, but the possibility of having an R2 Fiesta to drive in Dirt 4 is more exciting to me than 2017 WRC cars. :p

Maybe that's personal bias because Fiestas are pretty common here in Rally America, but as others have said, I'm perfectly happy sacrificing the latest and greatest cars if we're going to have a whole roster of cars from almost every other facet of the sport modeled properly to play with.

You are not alone. It is the car I am most excited about, by far. Then again I own a Fiesta ST so I might be biased hah

Yes, I like this too @BadD0g hope someone will make a Dillon Van Way and Chris Duplisis livery and many more from over here.  I am a little sad that the vt12 Subaru is gone and a N4 2015 models is there (no chance of getting the current vt16 cars, since Horizon has them now).  Oh well... could follow Crazy Leo's career or some other fantasy :)

Not to get too off-topic, but the NewBaru can look good with the right colors. Hopefully someone at Codemasters will have been able to make this happen: 



If not, I'm sure the modders will get right on it.

[SRD_SimVansevenant 863]

enamel said:

BadD0g said:

I may be in the minority here, but the possibility of having an R2 Fiesta to drive in Dirt 4 is more exciting to me than 2017 WRC cars. :p

Maybe that's personal bias because Fiestas are pretty common here in Rally America, but as others have said, I'm perfectly happy sacrificing the latest and greatest cars if we're going to have a whole roster of cars from almost every other facet of the sport modeled properly to play with.

You are not alone. It is the car I am most excited about, by far. Then again I own a Fiesta ST so I might be biased hah

I'm in the same boat and I'm probably a bit biased too as I own a Fiesta ST2 as well and have sat in the co driver seat of the rally version last year during one lap of the shakedown of the Ypres Rally thanks to a friend of mine. Next step is to drive it in D4 and hopefully one day for real.

[hockeytown1926 28]

I would love to have Colin McRae's R4 in the game.Shame that car never really took off.

[mintz420 0]

I would love Mitsubishi evo 6/7/8/9/10 on DiRT 4, or a the rally Ford Escort of my uncle ahah 
http://imgur.com/a/MkG0L

[SergeyTokarev 7]

mintz420 said:

I would love Mitsubishi evo 6/7/8/9/10 on DiRT 4, or a the rally Ford Escort of my uncle ahah 
http://imgur.com/a/MkG0L

Evo VI and X are confirmed for DiRT 4, right?

[BadD0g 0]

See this thread for all cars that have been confirmed, with sources:
http://forums.codemasters.com/discussion/48873/dirt-4-confirmed-car-list/p1